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Topic: help first time trying to make a PDFConf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 165781From:bobito Date: 5/15/2008 01:02 PM

Hi,

I've got a bunch of PDF pages I made in Illustrator, on a mac. I put them together in Acrobat, and the result is 360MB! I used examine document to remove a bunch of unecessary stuff, and the size is now 14 MB, much better.

However, I have an issue. There are some low-res bitmaps in my PDF, screen-shots of icons that I have enlarged so that they are much bigger than normal. When I view the PDF in a viewer, usually these icons are blurred -- the viewer is interpolating the pixels. How do I stop it from doing that? In Acrobat it does not show up this way, only in external viewers like Preview.

OK, so you want to stamp your document. Maybe you need to give reviewers some advice about the document's status or sensitivity. This tip from author Ted Padova demonstrates how to add stamps with the Stamp Tool along with related comments.